Ethno-nationalism, Islam and the state in the Caucasus post-Soviet disorder

• Other Authors: Gammer, M.
• Format: Unknown
• Language: English
• Published: London Routledge 2008
• Series: Central Asian studies series ; 9
• Subjects: Ethnic conflict > Caucasus, Northern > Russia (Federation); Ethnicity > Political aspects > Russia (Federation) > Caucasus, Northern; Islam and politics > Russia (Federation) > Caucasus, Northern; Caucasus, Northern (Russia) > Ethnic relations
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• Item Description: Includes index.
• Physical Description: xvii, 233 pages illustrations, maps 24 cm
• ISBN: 9780415423458 (hbk. : alk. paper); 0415423457 (hbk. : alk. paper)

With the region of the Caucasus with its ongoing, and even deteriorating, crisis and instability and its strategic and economic importance increasingly at the front of the world's attention, this volume presents and discusses some of the complexities and problems arising in the region such as Islamic terrorists and al-Qaida.